Stay for wire fences



(N0. Model.)

D M SPRINGER STAY FOR WIRE FENCES.

No. 585,052. Patented June 22,1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

DAVID M. SPRINGER, OF GREENOASTLE, INDIANA.

STAY FOR WIRE FENCES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,052, dated June 22,1897.

Application filed January 27, 1897. Serial No. 620,968. (No model.)

tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to the class of wire fences, and particularly toa wire-fence lock or stay to fasten or look the intersecting wires of afence together; and the object of the invention isto provide an improvedlock or clamp stay for wire fences. Y

A further object of the invention is to provide a lock or clamp for wirefences comprising a perforated plate having tongues contiguous to theperforations and adapted to be operated to clamp the wires to the plate.

Other objects and advantages accruing from my improved construction andarrangement will be disclosed in the specification to follow.

The invention consists in the novel construction and arrangement offlexible tongues relative to the plate-apertures.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this application, Figure 1is a perspective View of intersecting fence -wlres clamped or lockedtogether by my lock; Fig. 2, a detached perspective view of theplate-lock, showing the tongues depressed and the plate in position toreceive the wires. Fig. 3 is a plan View of the plate as it is stamped.

The same numeral references denote the same parts throughout the severalfigures of the drawings.

The vertical wire 1 and the horizontal wire 2 are of the usual form andsize. The plate 3, constituting the clamp or look, is stamped orotherwise form ed,preferably, of sheet-steel, though other metal may beemployed, having an aperture 4 in each end, the apertures being formednearer one edge of the plate than the other with points 2, over whichthe wire 1 is forced from an opening presently to be described.

Contiguous with each of the apertures 4 is formed integral with theplates a flexible tongue 5, the end 3 of which forms a portion of thewall of said apertures, and when the tongues 5 are bent at an angle tothe plate an opening 6 is left for the insertion of the vertical wire,as clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

To secure or clamp the intersecting wires together, the tongues are bentback at an angle to the plate and the plate is bent centrally on thedotted line a at around the horizontal Wire, which brings the apertures4 and openings 6 opposite each other, or the plate may be thus bentbefore placing it upon said wire. The vertical wire is then passedthrough the openings 6 and forced over the points 2 into the apertures4, said points preventing the displacement of the wire until the tonguesare bent flush with the plate to close up the openings 6 and completethe locking of the wires to the plate.

It will be observed that the tongues when .bent away from the aperturesleave an open- Having thus described my invention, what 7 I claim asnew, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A wire-fence stay or look, consisting of a plate having apertures andflexible tongues integral with the plate and adapted to be bent awayfrom the apertures to form an inclosed opening contiguous to theapertures, as set forth.

2. A wire-fence stay or look comprising a plate having apertures theplate being cut at an angle from the apertures toward the edge of theplate without extending through said edge, to form flexible tonguesintegral with the plate, and openings communicating only with saidapertures, as set forth.

a plate having apertures and adapted to be bent to receive a horizontalfence-Wire whereby the apertures are brought opposite each other,tongues integral with the plate and contiguous to said apertures, saidtongues adapted to be bent away from the apertures to form ineloseclopenings for the Vertical fence-wire, said tongues being bent toward theapertures to lock the vertical wire in said apertures and to close thesaid openings, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

DAVID M. SPRINGER. \Vitnesses:

OSCAR S. REEVES, AARON W. COOPER.

